Mark 10:26

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into Yahweh’s house.

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?

For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”

They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.

But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”

When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

The king said to Hazael, “Take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’ ”

and say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.” ’ ”

My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won’t forget your law.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

Just as many were astonished at you— his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—

But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

The men marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, the injured healed, the lame walking, and the blind seeing—and they glorified the God of Israel.

When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

For many are called, but few chosen.”

But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!”

He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”

They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement.

He got into the boat with them; and the wind ceased, and they were very amazed among themselves, and marveled;

They were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!”

Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, saying, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

One said to him, “Lord, are they few who are saved?” He said to them,

Those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”

And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.”

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in public custody.

As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.

But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;” that is, the word of faith which we preach:

If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who were also in Christ before me.

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.